AGENDAApril 14/15, 2010

1. Lecture/Discussion: WWII at home & abroad Propaganda on the Home Front Silent Graffiti Annotated map & timeline of WWII

2. Homework for Friday: Terms List for Chapter 36 1940s WebQuest Vote – once for your group -- for the best 1930s

WebQuests

Why was FDR framing the Japanese attack the way he did?

How do you convince people to sacrifice for the good of the nation and the war effort?

If you’re the government, how do you tell people like Peggy Terry what the war is

about? How do you motivate them?

How do you convince U.S. citizens to lock up 110,000 of their fellow Americans?

Propaganda in WWII

Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Propaganda is a form of communication aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

Any media text whose primary purpose is to openly persuade an audience of the validity of a particular point of view.www.medialit.org/reading_room/article565.html

The systematic effort of controlling public opinion or a course of action by using selected facts, ideas or allegations.www.japanesecanadianhistory.net/glossary.htm

Propaganda Techniques

Assertion

An assertion is an enthusiastic or energetic statement presented as a fact, although it is not necessarily true. The subject, ideally, should simply agree to the statement without searching for additional information or reasoning.

BandwagonBandwagon is an appeal to the subject to follow the crowd, to join in because others are doing so as well. Bandwagon propaganda is, essentially, trying to convince the subject that one side is the winning side, because more people have joined it.

The subject is meant to believe that since so many people have joined, that victory is inevitable and defeat impossible. Since the average person always wants to be on the winning side, he or she is compelled to join in.

Card Stacking

It involves only presenting information that is positive to an idea or proposal and omitting information contrary to it. Card stacking is used in almost all forms of propaganda, and is extremely effective in convincing the public

Glittering Generalities

Glittering generalities are words that have different positive meaning for individual subjects, but are linked to highly valued concepts. When these words are used, they demand approval without thinking, simply because such an important concept is involved.

Name Calling

The use of derogatory language or words that carry a negative connotation when describing an enemy. The propaganda attempts to arouse prejudice among the public by labeling the target something that the public dislikes.

Pinpointing the EnemyThis is an attempt to simplify a complex situation by presenting one specific group or person as the enemy. Although there may be other factors involved the subject is urged to simply view the situation in terms of clear-cut right and wrong.

Plain FolksThe plain folks device is an attempt by the propagandist to convince the public that his views reflect those of the common person and that they are also working for the benefit of the common person.

Simplification

Simplification is extremely similar to pinpointing the enemy, in that it often reduces a complex situation to a clear-cut choice involving good and evil. This technique is often useful in swaying uneducated audiences.

TestimonialsTestimonials are quotations or endorsements, in or out of context, which attempt to connect a famous or respectable person with a product or item.

TransferIt is an attempt to make the subject view a certain item in the same way as they view another item, to link the two in the subjects mind.

Silent Graffiti NO TALKING. With a marker/chalk, write a response, a

thought, a connection or an idea on the board.

When you have written something, silently pass the marker/chalk to a classmate. You may pass the marker/chalk to anyone you

wish, or people may raise their hand to indicate they would like to write, but you have to hand the marker/chalk to someone.

Everyone needs to write at least once.

Annotated Maps /

Timeline of WWII

Elements of WWII Maps/TimelineWar aims for US, USSR & Great Britain• written on/pointing to map

Significance & page number of the following on the appropriate map & timeline:• Casablanca, Teheran & Potsdam conferences• Pearl Harbor, D-Day, invasion of Sicily• Battle of the Bulge, Guadalcanal, Midway,

Marianas Islands, Stalingrad, Okinawa, Battle of the Atlantic

• V-E Day, Atomic bombs dropped, V-J Day

Homework

Due Friday Terms List for Chapter 36 1940s WebQuest Vote – once for your group -- for the best

1930s WebQuests

Topic for Friday Roots of the Cold War